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The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) - Paperback By Plath, Sylvia - GOOD

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Brand
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MPN
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ISBN
0060837020
Book Title
Bell Jar
Item Length
8in
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Year
2005
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7in
Author
Sylvia Plath
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Psychological, Classics, Native American & Aboriginal, Literary
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060837020
ISBN-13
9780060837020
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45420177

Product Key Features

Book Title
Bell Jar
Author
Sylvia Plath
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Classics, Native American & Aboriginal, Literary
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3566.L27b4
Reviews
Esther Greenwood's account of her years in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing. . . . [This] is not a potboiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures: it is literature., The narrator simply describes herself as feeling very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel. The in-between moment is just what Miss Plath's poetry does catch brilliantly--the moment poised on the edge of chaos., The first-person narrative fixes us there, in the doctor's office, in the asylum, in the madness, with no reassuring vacations when we can keep company with the sane and listen to their lectures., It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal and make it as meaningful . . . as it was 25 years ago., "It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal and make it as meaningful . . . as it was 25 years ago." -- USA Today "Esther Greenwood's account of her years in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing. . . . [This] is not a potboiler, nor a series of ungrateful caricatures: it is literature." -- New York Times "The first-person narrative fixes us there, in the doctor's office, in the asylum, in the madness, with no reassuring vacations when we can keep company with the sane and listen to their lectures." -- Washington Post Book World "The narrator simply describes herself as feeling very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel. The in-between moment is just what Miss Plath's poetry does catch brilliantly--the moment poised on the edge of chaos." -- Christian Science Monitor "As clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing." -- New York Times
Copyright Date
1971
Lccn
96-211742
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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  • Top favorable review

    Classic story, as relivent as ever

    Classic story from an author who died too soon. After such a terrible year (2020), the slow decay in madness became all too relatable to me.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: worldofbooksinc

  • Perhaps too Real

    The Bell Jar was written largely as autobiographical, the character Esther, like Sylvia Plath, bedeviled by depression. At the book's beginning I thought I was going to be in for a female version of F. Scott Fitzgerald - the oh-so-nice social connections, and all that entails in the way of social commentary. Sadly, as I continued to read, I discovered Plath's story had little of the social commentary or personal depth of Fitzgerald's work. Two things in particular disturbed me about this book: First, Plath probably portrayed her alter ego correctly in that Ester acted in an almost completely dispassionate manner. In writing this way, I think Plath conflates the monochromatic way depressives perceive their world with their inner world. It would have been a much stronger book to have the ...

  • A must read

    Well, the book is amazing, what can I say? It's a classic, and I am glad I'm reading it in my late 20s rather than my teens because I would've found Esther too maudlin; now I find her honest.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: goodwillsp

  • The Bell Jar

    Plath's only novel, published shortly before her suicide, THE BELL JAR tells the story, based on the author's own experiences, about a young woman's descent into madness. Esther Greenwood spends a month in New York City as a guest magazine editor--just as Plath did as a Mademoiselle magazine intern--and gradually loses her grip on reality. THE BELL JAR was so autobiographical that, when it was first published in 1963 in England, it appeared under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.

  • Pace yourself

    Great read. You feel the slow descent and if not careful could be carried there. Put the book down and breathe some fresh air and start again!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: dreambooks_co